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News from 2011
Media enquiries:
Neale Jones
Communications Director
027 276 5146
- Union confident about health and safety systems at Huntly coalmine
- 2 December, 2011
The union representing miners at Solid Energy's Huntly East operation, the EPMU, is confident there are good systems in place for health and safety management at the...
Read Article - Genesis call centre workers hanging up Monday
- 11 November, 2011
Workers at Genesis Energy's Hamilton call centre take industrial action on Monday (14 November) over their employer's push for individualised performance based pay. The Genesis workers' union, the...
Read Article - Good week for miners
- 19 August, 2011
EPMU welcomes announcements made this week that will have a significant impact on health and safety in the mining industry. Ged O'Connell, Assistant National Secretary of the EMPU said...
Read Article - High hazards unit a good start, but more work needed
- 17 August, 2011
The union representing most underground coal miners and oil and gas industry workers has welcomed the government's high hazards unit as a good start but says more...
Read Article - NZ steel workers walk off job
- 16 August, 2011
More than 850 steel workers employed by NZ Steel at their sites in Glenbrook, Waikato North Head and Taharoa have called a 24-hour strike and walked off...
Read Article - Blue Star decision 'too close for comfort'
- 10 August, 2011
The decision by Blue Star bondholders to accept a proposed refinancing deal by majority owner Champ Private Equity has been ‘too close for comfort' for Blue Star...
Read Article - Fatal accident at SafeAir in Blenheim
- 8 August, 2011
An engineer has been killed this morning at an accident at SafeAir in Blenheim. SafeAir is a wholly owned subsidiary of Air New Zealand. The union is able...
Read Article - Labour's capital gains tax a breath of fresh air for manufacturing
- 15 July, 2011
72 1024x768 Normal 0 false false false The Labour Party's decision to introduce a capital gains tax of 15% is a breath of...
Read Article - Phone and data lines under threat
- 7 July, 2011
Phone and data lines are under threat because controversial maintenance arrangements made between Chorus and Visionstream two years ago aren't working, says the union representing lines maintenance workers. Chorus,...
Read Article - Andrew Little steps down as EPMU national secretary
- 5 July, 2011
EPMU national secretary Andrew Little stands down tomorrow (Wednesday). Mr Little, a lawyer, joined the union's legal team in 1992. He was named general counsel in 1997 and...
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